Word: telegraphs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...emphasize the point, brokers' loans mounted last week to $4,569,978,000, highest for all time, surpassing even the figure for June 6. Apparently undisturbed, the stock-market went about its business, saw a seat sold for a record $425,000, dickered for the adjoining 20-story Postal Telegraph building as an annex, appointed Mrs. Catherine M. Healy of Montclair, N. J., as its first woman purchasing agent...
...Short wireless waves, pulsating about 900,000 times a second, are practically as efficient as land telegraph wires in transmitting messages, photographs, facsimiles, written matter (checks, messages...
Also there is the maintenance of competition, the avoidance of monopoly, which the Federal Trade Commissioners like to oversee. Already the Postal Telegraph (I. T. & T. subsidiary) and Western Union are sending telegrams and photograms over Bell Telephone wires. I. T. & T. has not abandoned its hope of buying control of R. C. A. Yet the appearance of competition seems certain to persist. Transoceanic wireless has forced the reduction of cable rates until the two services now charge practically the same prices. What land wireless rates will do to land wire rates no one before the Federal Radio Commission last...
Their lust for business last week befuddled the much badgered Federal Radio Commission. Two of the companies-the I. T. & T. (through its subsidiary Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co.) and R. C. A. demanded the right to set up wireless telegraph stations and sell service between cities in continental...
...members of the Federal Radio Commission last week listened to these demands. They listened also to two other and similar demands-from Inter-City Radio Telegraph Co. of Cleveland for 50 stations, from Universal Wireless Communication Co. of Buffalo, a new concern, for 125 stations...